[nrmitchi]

> The question that follows would be: how do you know what was intended to be less performant versus optimized on-demand?

I'm saying that the cloud provider shouldn't try to make assumption either way, and I'm definitely not saying that it should try to manage indexes for you.

If you are typically using X ops/s, and begin using 50X ops/s, the default should not be "this customer probably wants to spend 50x their previous spend". It should maybe scale up some percentage of previous usage, but definitely not into a range that would be considered anomalous.

> The choice of infinity scale tools comes with infinity scale costs, and so there’s a responsibility that engineers using these tools need to understand what they’re accepting with that choice.

Sure, but I have never once seen one of these providers make clear that using them comes with the risk of being charged "infinity money".

[Anunayj]

Honestly, just a limit isn't bad, Just a option to "Stop all operations if bill exceeds 300$" would make this a LOT safer for most folks.

[bombcar]

Or perhaps a “do not allocate more than $1/min” or something similar - which makes cloud servers mimic bare metal hardware - when you overload it slows down but keeps trying.